Favorite or least favorite scary movies?

Fav:

Let's Scare Jessica to DeathWhen a Stranger Calls28 Days Later28 Weeks Later (one of the few sequels that works)Rosemary's BabyWolfenThe OthersSally (the original, not the Katie Holmes remake)Burnt Offerings Bette Davis and Oliver Reed. A ghostly driver, a spooky music box and a house that re-juvinates itself.Cat People and Curse of the Cat People. Very stylish chillers more than thrillers. Simone Simon was GORGEOUSThe RingAn American Werewolf in LondonHouse on Haunted Hill. 1958. Vincent Price!The Innocents 1961. Seeing the gost on the side of the lake....was she real or wasn't she? Spooky!Freaks 1932, Thank you Turner Classic Movie for airing this.The Haunting 1963

Least Favorites:

Godzilla 1999 with Matthew Broderick. It was annoying and 'zilla looked like a giant iguana as opposed to a monster.Hostel. Shut it off after 40 minutes.One Missed CalFear Dot ComWhite NoiseAny Friday The 13th beyond the original, The one were Jason awoke on a spaceship in the future was hideous. Just stop already.

I think the best scary movies are when the suspense and the threat of violence keep you on the edge of your seat. Not so much of a fan of scary movies where the intent is to frighten from graphic blood slinging.

Example: I know there were some more graphic parts of "Halloween" and "Silence of the Lambs", but the real thrills came when the female leads were just barely eluding the killer.

Everytime I've tried to watch the Exorcist I've fallen asleep. Just not meant to be, haha.

There are some well-received films I want to see but are unavailable/not to be found, such as Suspiria. A remake is being done as I type.

And there is a horror film I saw as a kid nobody can identify--a child was sliding down a staircase banister, slipped off and died. The mother kept her mummified body in a bed. It came out before 1987.

I can't really give much input in this category. I got too scared during certain scenes of Jurassic Park! Ditto for the first 20 minutes of Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (just couldn't watch it, even though I certainly knew about the violence during the Crusades). Both have great soundtracks, though!

I can't really give much input in this category. I got too scared during certain scenes of Jurassic Park! Ditto for the first 20 minutes of Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (just couldn't watch it, even though I certainly knew about the violence during the Crusades). Both have great soundtracks, though!

I have to say, I like Robin Hood as well. (The first part of it I look down at my lap a lot more, though.) I love Morgan Freeman in just about everything, and also that last scene (with a surprise guest Richard the Lionheart) makes me happy every time.

I have to say, I like Robin Hood as well. (The first part of it I look down at my lap a lot more, though.) I love Morgan Freeman in just about everything, and also that last scene (with a surprise guest Richard the Lionheart) makes me happy every time.

Morgan Freeman totally makes that movie work. Gotta love Kostner not having an accent when everyone else does - all because his accent was so horrible the director told him to ditch it!

I haven't seen The Intouchables yet, but I hear it's great. I love many of the films you cite, Plushyfan, but I must single out The Bucket List because it's less well known than many of the others on your list, and it always makes me happy to watch it. The ending, when you see who has brought the tin up the mountain, makes me tearful every time. The relationship between Jack Nicholson (clearly one of your favorites) and Morgan Freeman (one of my favorites) is sublime. They play off each other so well. I sometimes think that every movie should co-star either Morgan Freeman or Stanley Tucci.

If we're talking about non-horror movies for a bit (we chickens keep hijacking this thread, and we don't apologize!), I recently found that Barbra Streisand's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is on DVD. This movie is beyond obscure; no one talks about it, and I can't understand why. It's Streisand, looking and sounding wonderful. It's directed by Vincente Minnelli. The sumptuous costumes are by Cecil Beaton. And, to top things off, Jack Nicholson appears in a rather minor role at a time of his life when he was just drop-dead handsome. The one weak part for me was Yves Montand as the lead. He had to sing, and I don't think he pulled it off. Unfortunate that they didn't go with the Broadway lead for this--John Cullum. Did they think he wasn't bankable enough? They had Streisand. Who else did they need? And Montand wasn't that well known in this country anyway. Ah, well. The story is rather whimsical but appealing, I thought, and the songs (especially sung by Streisand) are delightful.

Another chicken, but I will watch thrillers, but not horror shows. In fact, we don't watch a lot of movies

I love the Bucket List!
Another favorite Jack Nicholson favorite of mine is As Good As It Gets.

In thrillers, Hunt For Red October

In general
The Caine Mutiny
Gandhi
Driving Miss Daisy
Tom Hanks in That Thing You Do
Spinal Tap
My Blue Heaven
My Cousin Vinnie
and two that Netflix suggested for me that I hadn't seen advertised elsewhere (I loved both of them)
Sabah
The Ramen Girl

Speaking of Jack Nicholson, one of the scariest movies of all time is one he's in: "Batman".... I cannot watch a Nicholson movie without wanting to wet myself because of his portrayal as the Joker (IMO his Joker is way better than Heath Ledger's).

Another terrifying (for me) film is E.T. the guys in the has-mat suits have scared me to tears since I was 5.